Abstract
It is well known that orthodox quantum mechanics does not make unambiguous predictions for the statistics in arrival time (or time-of-flight) experiments. Bohmian mechanics (or de Broglie-Bohm theory) offers a distinct conceptual advantage in this regard, owing to the well-defined concepts of point particles and trajectories embedded in this theory. We revisit a recently proposed experiment [S. Das and D. Durr, Sci. Rep. 9, 2242 (2019)], the numerical analysis of which revealed a striking spin dependence in the (Bohmian) time-of-arrival distributions of a spin-1/2 particle. We present here a mathematically tractable variant of the same experiment, where the predicted effects can be established rigorously. We also obtain some results that can be compared with experiment.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Faculties: | Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics > Mathematics Physics |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 510 Mathematics 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| ISSN: | 2469-9926 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 82342 |
| Date Deposited: | 15. Dec 2021, 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 13. Aug 2024, 12:43 |
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